"After the end of WWII, Allied forces faced guerrilla bombings and attacks in occupied Germany--Nazi loyalists tried to derail reconstruction by sabotage and killing collaborators, while Werewolves, an underground organization of die-hard SS officers, boasted of rebirth of the Party. Find out if their bark was worse than their bite in a 2-hour investigation into how Werewolves terrorized military and civilian targets, and the Allied attempt to purge Germany's past at denazification tribunals."

It is urban legend to think that GI's were killed like they are being killed in Iraq. Maybe in the Russian Zone but not in the American. When this crap started to circulate I checked with guys I served with in occupation and NO ONE knew of guys killed. [accidents yes including Patton]. Even the Library of Congress could not confirm any source for this. Iraq is not Germany.

I don't know anything about post WWII Germany, but the History Channel ran a program on the Occupation of Japan and, outside accidents and illness, there were no GI deaths in post war Japan. Since we all knew Iraq makes the Balkans look neat and tidy, it should come as no surprise that Iraq is no Japan.

After watching the news lately, I was wondering if there would have been some guerilla tacticts of some sort after WW2. This is the first time I've ever heard about it. And not to mention that homicide bombings are relatively a new method (and I'm not counting the Kamakazie warrior.)

I recently talked to my aging grandfather who was in Japan at the time, and he said that all the Japanese ran away from the US Soldiers for a couple weeks ... only to find out that the US soldiers weren't the vicious killers they heard about. There were some troublemakers, though, but nothing like Iraq/Afghanistan.

Thanks for your research showing. "Well, no, it doesn't. The Rice-Rumsfeld depiction of the Allied occupation of Germany is a farrago of fiction and a few meager facts. "

There should be no reason why Washington keeps placing phony stuff before the public. They make themselves harder and harder to believe.

They overlook that there are a lot of guys still alive who have had first hand experience in German occupation. Rice appears to be an absolute super faker starting with the smoking gun could be a mushsroom cloud. Then there is Jessica Lynch as Rambo.

Iraq is not Germany, nor Japan. GIs are getting killed. Do something about it and quit the crap.

>It is urban legend to think that GI's were killed like they are being killed in Iraq. Maybe in the Russian Zone but not in the American. When this crap started to circulate I checked with guys I served with in occupation and NO ONE knew of guys killed. [accidents yes including Patton]. Even the Library of Congress could not confirm any source for this. Iraq is not Germany.

I was in Berlin from 01/55 to 07/57. I am aware of several members of the 2nd Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment that lost their lives or injured. Please do not forget over 40 Americans were either killed or wounded 1985/1986 earning the Purple Heart.

I do not know where you were assigned in Germany, but Iraq is not Berlin. We had approximately 15,000 Allied troops in Berlin surrounded by 30 Soviet divisions. How many divisions surround the coalition forces?

Went like this. I crossed over into Germany in Spring 1945, went through Bavaria [including Munich, the day Hitler killed himself] and then occupied Austria. We lost men during the war but none due to enemy action after the war. Iraq like Nazi Germany is a lot of revisionist crap. Some of us are still alive.

We understood that if we would defeat the Nazi army, end Hitler and occupy the country, we could come home [or be reployed to do the same in Japan - thank you Pres Truman]. Politicans kept their word - we came home. Now just what do the present soldiers in Iraq have to do to come home? Tell the soldiers what they must do and they will do it - screw keep adding endless mission creep.

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posted on 03/12/2004 1:06:06 PM PST
by ex-snook
(Be Patriotic - STOP outsourcing in the War on American Jobs.)

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